30 Amazing Wikipedia Statistics and Facts (December 2018)

In the early days of the modern internet era, a project was started to develop a website that would stand as a crowdsourced repository of information. Wikipedia started off modestly, but quickly became the world’s online encyclopedia. Today, Wikipedia sees billions of pageviews and has tens of millions of users.

So just how big has Wikipedia become? Here are the more interesting stats and facts I was able to dig up for Wikipedia. As always, I will be adding more and updating these periodically as I find new stuff. Be sure to check back regularly.

Percentage of Wikipedia articles that belong to the English-edition:

Most-read article on Wikipedia in 2017:

Second most-read article on Wikipedia in 2017:

This report is a digital collection of every Wikipedia statistic I have curated over the years as of May 2018. 30 of them including stats for:

Users

Articles

Editors

Fundraising

Etc.- all in one place

I try to go through each and every stat regularly and update as much as possible, but we all know that some stats are easier to track down than others. As always, every stat is linked to its original source and has the source date listed.

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Please note that some of these stats may come from news reports and not official company tallies. No information contained on DMR should be relied upon to make investment decisions. Basically, this is the best I can find, but I don’t guarantee anything to be 100%.